{"id":145179,"date":"2026-02-05T20:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T20:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/145179\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T20:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T20:48:07","slug":"70-years-have-passed-since-the-tallahassee-bus-boycott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/145179\/","title":{"rendered":"70 years have passed since the Tallahassee Bus Boycott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<img width=\"600\" height=\"472\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/BusBoycott.jpg\" class=\"attachment-newspaperly-slider size-newspaperly-slider wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tHailey Heseltine&#13;<br \/>\nnews@greenepublishing.com. &#13;<br \/>\nOn May 26, 1956, two Florida A&amp;M University (FAMU) students rode on \u201cwhites only\u201d seats in a\u00a0 Tallahassee bus. When the driver demanded that the young women, Wilhelmina Jakes and Carrie Patterson, move to the \u201ccolored\u201d section in the back of the bus, their refusal to move landed them behind bars. This event sparked the Tallahassee Bus Boycott, a seven-month-long effort led by Rev. C. K. Steele to challenge discrimination in public trans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hailey Heseltine&#13; news@greenepublishing.com. &#13; On May 26, 1956, two Florida A&amp;M University (FAMU) students rode on \u201cwhites only\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":{"0":"post-145179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tallahassee","8":"tag-tallahassee","9":"tag-tallahassee-headlines","10":"tag-tallahassee-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}